Japan is a beta imperialist country like Australia
They do have hella soft power. Like Californians. I like Merzbow and the Tokyo Active NEETs
And the dude who [redacted] Abe had hard power. As do the Yakuza
And they're literally better at capitalism than Am*ricans lol
I subscribe to Michael Hudson's logic for Japan: being an enemy of the US is a damgerous, being an ally is lethal. After WWII, Japan was promoted by the US as another forward military base + reindustrialized as an economically viable state. Once it startes to do too well, however, the US used its financial weapons to tank the Japanese economy in the 90s.
As a de facto vassal state with no real rivals, Japan has no need for nukes. Defensive nukes are for countries that are at risk due to bombing or invasion. Japan is only at risk from capitalism.
Ah, that explains the panic about Japan taking over the world back in the 80s.
desperately installing type 96 aa guns everywhere there's space in japanese cities to improve their air defence like they're a warship being refitted at kure
It's what the US thinks. The US is weird. People are weird.
Yeah I think I could wring those words out of my ex’s uncle unironically.
I could wring them out of my uncle without even trying lmao. Dude watches Sky News. Shoots his own dogs when they're "useless." He'd get along well with the r/communism mod except for their ideological differences
It's funny. My Chinese friend called Japan "feminine." Which is cringier? Choose.
Yeah so do I but I don't use it as an excuse to parrot cringe reactionary 4chan shit.
Okay so I'm going to rearrange my entire language at some point and maintain brevity. Haven't figured it out yet because I'm lazy
You cannot talk about the world without being cringe. The world is cringe.
You like sub/dom language? Mega-cringe. Dichotomies are cringe.
Order/entropy is acceptable. As is dead/alive, bourgeois/proletarian, father/mother, etc. All variations of a rule.
It's over Japan! I have already depicted myself as the Chad and you as the soyjak!
I think I remember hearing that Japan keep components and skills so they could assemble nukes within weeks if they made the decision. But they deliberately stay this side of the line for now.
I really look forward to the day that the Chinese market for anime becomes larger than the domestic Japanese and foreign western markets combined and anime can go back to cool shit like Cowboy Bebop instead of pandering to incel pedos who buy merch
So what you're saying is that they're only using 1% of their true power?
All true but regarding nukes, they could probably develop them fast if they wanted to. Remember when Sweden almost got nukes? Lmao
Maybe they'll have them soon..
There was just a news story on the morning news about Japan expanding their military. It was titled "Countering China's Aggression" eyeroll
Getting pretty frustrated with this anti chinese propaganda that seems to be filling the news rn
Yeah I hate watching Australian TV. We uncritically follow Japan and the US.
Not Paul Keating and John Hewson though. Those two were mortal enemies in the 90s. Now they both think the Labor Party sucks re: China. That means it's a Labor Party problem.
Anthony Albanese is a massive loser and Penny Wong isn't much better. I stopped reading Penny Wong's biography when I got to the part where she "wouldn't describe herself as a Marxist." Opinion discarded. The absolute state of the Labor "Left."
